Sociological Approach in

Curriculum

Discussant: Ar John Marcial
BSED4Filipino


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What is Education
is a process of transmission of
culture
Culture
it refers to the total way of life
of a society
it composed of its knowledge,
belief, attitudes, values, skills and
behavior patterns.
School
are formal institution specially
set up for the preservation of culture


What makes
curriculum
planning a very
complicated task?

INDIA
Diverse Social stocks
Culture
Language
Religions
Customs

Economic Class
Educational achievement
Occupation
Gender

Problem in Curriculum Planning
How to Forge a genuine national
sentiment among all its people and
bring about emotional integration
through a national system of
education without in anyway,
diminishing its cultural variety and
richness
Common curriculum
Common Indian culture
Of the different section of the
Indian society
To what extent is it possible to identify a
common Indian culture to serve as a basis
for a national curriculum?
Should national curriculum emphasized the
traditional culture values or values of
modernization?
What aspect of traditional culture should be
retained and what should be remove?


To extent should the different
subcultures be presented in common
curriculum?
How can the interest of different
linguistic and ethnic groups be
comprised with a national system?
What shall be its cultural
components?

Criticism of Common Curriculum
Prof. G.H. Bantock

Culture
HIGH LOW
HIGH CULTURE has an
essentially academic and literary
tradition.

LOW CULTURE - has as an
essentially folk or non literary
tradition.
Compulsory education based on the
common curriculum has failed!
Because we have attempted
to force literary culture down the
throats of the masses whose
tradition basically an oral one.
- A pluralistic Society has to build it upon to
the elements that are common to the various
subcultures that together make up the total culture
of the society besides making adequate provision
for the preservation of identities of the different
subcultural groups. The curriculum should also take
a pulls of different social classes and it should be so
designed that it does not act unfair to the interest
of the lower socio economic classes. In the name of
transmission of culture it should not act as vehicle
of domination of middle class values.